In March, Miguel was accused of sexually assaulting a University of New Mexico student named Xian Bass. In an Instagram post at the time, Bass says that she saw Miguel in a Los Angeles club and approached him to take a selfie. Afterward, she alleges that “he reache[d] his hand down my shirt and [took] my breast out of my top.”
“I approached you respectfully and you still decided my body was not sacred enough to be treated as a human being,” Bass wrote in the post. “After we took this photo, you took it upon yourself to grab my breast and remove it from my shirt WITHOUT CONSENT. You then proceeded to look at my naked breast with such a disgusting look on your face… Have you gotten away with this in the past? Well, it stops HERE and NOW. I will not sit in shameful silence and allow sexual assault to be normalized.”
The accusation was reported on in a limited capacity when it was made, and TMZ asked Miguel about it and he denied it.